Jim Mattis was all set to swear in Jeff Bezos for a DOD advisory board — something a defense secretary wouldn’t normally do — but it was scuttled at the last minute because Bezos hadn’t completed his security clearance. Great reporting here. https://t.co/KsjfFnWsEl

It's part of a pattern of Silicon Valley overplaying its hand. Like, moving into the cloud might be good for the DoD. But because Amazon worked every angle so hard to land the JEDI contract, the process now seems tainted to the point of unsalvageability.

A good read on the JEDI, even if the headline is ridiculous (seduced? 🤔). Here is the key sentence for me: "Much of the information that has surfaced in the press about JEDI is the product of investigations performed by Oracle and its lawyers" https://t.co/Le5bVtquAr

All kinds of bonkers new details in this piece about how Amazon and Google pushed the Pentagon towards its cloud services, and how the Pentagon demoted an ethics official who raised alarm bells about the excessively cozy relationship. https://t.co/HYpXY0kVcY

"Inside the drone operations center at Creech, according to three people familiar with the trip, Schmidt observed video as a truck in a contested zone somewhere was surveilled by a Predator drone and annihilated."https://t.co/QWUcpZYQLX